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John Glasby and John C. Maxwell - The World Makers - Orion Publishing Group

The World Makers

By John Glasby and John C. Maxwell

E-Book

£P.O.R.

An SF Gateway eBook: bringing the classics to the future.

Earth had been destroyed, but man had built his colonies on Mars and Venus and the far-flung moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mutation and forced breeding had changed these people so they were no longer human. Clyde Lester, the last man on Earth, had a special problem. From somewhere in space there originated strange radio signals which could only come from beyond the orbit of Pluto, the outermost planet.

Biographical Notes

John Glasby (1928-2011)John Stephen Glasbywas born in 1928, and gradu­ated from Nottingham University with an honours degree in Chemistry. He started his career as a research chemist for I.C.I. in 1952, and worked for them until his retirement. Over the next two decades, he began a parallel career as an extraordinarily prolific writer of science fiction novels and short stories, his first novels appearing in the summer of 1952 from Curtis Warren Ltd. under various house pseudonyms such as 'Rand Le Page' and 'Berl Cameron', as was the fashion of the day. Late in 1952, he began an astonishing asso­ciation with the London publisher, John Spencer Ltd., which was to last more than twenty years. John Glasby died on June 5, 2011, following a long and courageous battle with illness, during which time he continued to write with undimmed power.

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ISBN:
9781473210547

Publication date:
30 Jun 2015

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Imprint:
Gateway

Orion

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